Talk:-us

RFV discussion: September 2022–January 2023
Latin. Any examples for these alleged declension patterns?

a) Of nouns:

Notes:
 * There are three 2nd declension neuters in -us:, , . New Latin vīrus has plural vīra, pelagus has pelagē (from Greek). But which neuter shall have nom. pl. -ī?

b) Of adjectives:

Note: Words from Greek having nom. sg. -os for masc. and fem. don't count.

--20:02, 8 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I have found Late Latin uses of as pelagī in what I'm pretty sure is the nominative plural, but I am still trying to find something that is unambiguously not the genitive, as they're either not in running text (e.g. a header) or abbreviated prose (e.g. marginal notes). Theknightwho (talk) 15:15, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * RFV failed (uncited for more than a month), unless Thenightwho can now cite any examples of neuter nominative/accusative plural . I would be surprised if that form exists with that gender; practically every neuter plural in Latin ends in -a (the few exceptions being highly irregular frequent words with special etymologies such as, , , ). It seems more likely that nominative plural pelagī, like accusative singular and accusative plural , would be a masculine byform.--Urszag (talk) 03:34, 27 January 2023 (UTC)